Utah Historical Quarterly
These reminiscences make for delightful reading . . . This book is a sensitive account of the struggles of a woman torn between her need for like- minded friends, for cultivation, and her love of the beauty and vigor of the West with all its harshness . . . The book, well edited and footnoted, is heightened in value by the profusion of Mrs. Foote's own excellent illustrations.

Western American Literature
Mrs. Foote's realistic vision clearly marks her reminiscences; and her mature style makes the reading smooth and interesting.

Los Angeles Times, March 23, 2003
Foote's work was a combination of history, keen observation, and sheer love for the landscape of the West.

California Historical Quarterly
Such reminiscences provide the research sources for the innovative and imaginative history of American women being written today.

Western American Literature
Paul's superb edition makes clear the reason that this woman and her work suddenly seem important subjects for consideration.

Utah Historical Quarterly
The book, well edited and footnoted, is heightened in value by the profusion of Mrs. Foote's own excellent illustrations.

The Historical Society of Southern California
Paul demonstrates a rare sensitivity, even compassion, for this talented woman and those she loved.

Book Description
Starting with her nostalgically remembered childhood on a Quaker farm on the Hudson River, Mary Hallock Foote tells the story of her training as an artist in the 1860s and of her marriage to a mining engineer whose jobs took the young couple west in the closing days of the frontier. She left the east, but not her career in book illustration. While moving from place to place with her husband, she also became a popular and widely published author, describing in her novels what it meant to be a woman in the American West during the late nineteenth century. Her story inspired the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner.

About the Author
Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938) was a highly successful writer and illustrator of stories and novels about the West.

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